Open problems in philosophy
"Otherwise known as the "paradox of the heap", the question regards how one defines a "thing.""
According the properties you need. A thing is a thing when you need it to be a thing. Next
Open problems in philosophy
"‘The problem of demarcation’ is an expression introduced by Karl Popper to refer to ‘the problem of finding a criterion which would enable us to distinguish between the empirical sciences on the one hand, and mathematics and logic as well as "metaphysical" systems on the other’."
There's no need. Next
Open problems in philosophy
"The question hinges on whether color is a product of the mind or an inherent property of objects."
I think physics has answered this question
The more interesting question is: do people experience colour the same? Do you see green the way I see green? And the answer is, as always: we will never know, so it's a silly question
Open problems in philosophy
"if a man born blind, and able to distinguish by touch between a cube and a globe, were made to see, could he now tell by sight which was the cube and which the globe, before he touched them?"
There's literally real people to whom this has happened I'm pretty sure, but I don't remember what the answer was, but it was in my psych class
Open problems in philosophy
@nonphatic :(
Open problems in philosophy
@nonphatic or is it
Open problems in philosophy
"The mind–body problem is the problem of determining the relationship between the human body and the human mind."
This is a psycho-biological problem best left to scientists. Next